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The music paled like a candle and went out.
Stella Benson / Novelist
Music
Candle
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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson / Novelist
Foe
Stranger
Man
Call
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Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.
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Love
Men
Stranger
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Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
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Posing
Pretense
Sometimes
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Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.
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Connections
Music Is
World
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The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.
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Chocolate
Drinking
Moments
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Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
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Ocean
Animal
Islands
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a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
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Committees
Enthusiasm
Purpose
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Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.
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Curiosity
Dies
Needs
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Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
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Cities
Heart
Los Angeles
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You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
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Clay
Feet
Idols
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Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
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Delicious
Excellent
Misunderstood
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Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
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People
Thinking
Two
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
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Family
Alive
Cursed
Stranger
Ties
Bond
Strangers
Rightly
Though
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The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.
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Change
Flower
Godly
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The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
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Law
Likes
Silence
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
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Men
Sea
Sky
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Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
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Age
Three
Twenties
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Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.
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Productions
San Francisco
Writing
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There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
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Dream
Air
Clouds
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The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
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Committees
Might
Ordinary
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We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.
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Travel
Forget
Worst
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always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.
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Dream
Air
California
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You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.
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Hysteria
Movement
Thinking
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There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.
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Class
Thinking
Two
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I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
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Heart
Luxury
Writing
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Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
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Apples
Blessed
Blessing
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Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.
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Art
Cities
Country
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Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.
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Husband
Mother
Son
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
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Men
Doors
People
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What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.
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Laughing
Real
Voice
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Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.
Stella Benson / Novelist
Men
Fall
Race
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